Juxtapoz Magazine – Youth Rising in the UK 1981-2021 A new exhibition at Amber Film & Photography Collective brings together the work of nine photographers who have documented the young people i… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/youth-rising-in-the-uk-1981-2021/ A new exhibition at Amber Film & Photography Collective brings together the work of nine photographers who have documented the young people in…
Link: This series by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen was shot in the working-class English neighborhood of Byker, east of Newcastle. Taken in the 1960s
The “Real Britain” Postcards In the early nineteen-seventies, a small group of photographers set out to document what they understood to be real British life. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/real-britain-postcards In the early nineteen-seventies, a small group of photographers—including Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, and Stephen Weiss—set out to document what they understood to…
Bringing Color to Newcastle Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s black-and-white photos of Newcastle’s industrial past helped newcomers to the English town adjust to life. She returned, after decades, to photograph them — in color. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/bringing-color-to-newcastle/ “When Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen moved to Byker, an English neighborhood in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, she was drawn to the laughter, the children playing…
Byker in Black and White Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, a Finnish photographer, began taking pictures of her new neighborhood in Newcastle, in northeast England, in 1969, having no idea the area was slated for demolition. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/byker-in-black-and-white/ vistas were rare in 1969, when Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, a 21-year-old Finnish photographer, arrived. The landscape was cloaked in…
